Pruning-shears



(No Model.)

C. E. PERRY.

PRUNING SHERS. v l NO- 576,688 Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

TN: Nosms PETERS co. Novo-umu.. WASHINGTON n c UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

CHARLES E. FERRY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO JOI-IN KLEINER, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

PRUNlNG-SHEARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,688, dated February 9, 1897'.

Application led October l 0, I 8 9 5.

.To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES E. PERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pruning-Shears, of which the following is a specication.

This invention has for its object, mainly, to prevent or overcome the spring or lateral xo movement of the cutting blades or jaws in pruningshears under the strain of heavy work, such as in cutting thick branches and limbs in pruning operations, and to provide for taking up loose movement of the parts upon each other resulting from wear.

T o such end the invention consists in the described construction, combination, and arrangement of parts producing an improved means for stiffening the joint in a pair of pruning-shears or similar implement.

The following descriptionexplains the man ner in which I construct, apply, and carry out my said improvement, reference being had to the drawings accompanyin and forming part of this specification. l

Figure l of the said drawings represents a pair of pruning-shears with my improvement applied to the joint; Fig. 2, a top View in detail of the hooked jaw; Fig. 3, a top View of the slotted plate removed from the joint; Fig. 4, an edge view of the jaw, Fig. 2, and its handle with the pivot-bolt and the slotted plate in place, the cutting-blade or other jaw of the implement being removed. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the cutting-blade.

A indicates the cutting-blade, A the hookshaped jaw that works against it, and B B the handles.

C is the bolt uniting these two parts and 4o forming the pivot on which they work.

D is a plate provided with a hole d for the pivot-bolt C and havinga curved slot d2 concentric with the bolt-hole d' and located on one side of the center thereof.

45 E is a bolt that is set through the curved slot in the plate and through a hole inthe blade A beneath the plate, it being noticed that the said plate is laid directly against Serial No, 565,275. (No model.)

' Between these two parts the shank of the b lade A is thus conned and is clamped between them by tightening the bolt F.. The slot a2 is made concentric with the pivot C, so that while the bolt 'E is fixed in the blade A it is free to slide in the slot of the jaw A', as well as in the plate'D, when the jaw and plate turn on the pivot C. As the two slots are concentric with the pivot the bolt E slides smoothly in them when the jaws are opened or closed. The pivot-bolt is drawn up and tightened by the nut CX, that is screwed down after the plate D is placed over the end of the bolt C, a Washer being placed under the nut. As thus constructed and applied it will be seen that the plate D is held closely against the shank of the blade A at the pivot C by being placed under the nut CX, and is also stiftly connected to the jaw against which the blades work at a point beyond the pivot by the bolt E, in consequence of which the joint is strengthened and stiltened to such a degree that lateral spread or springing movement of the jaws is prevented and the cutting edges are kept in close working position.

Loose movement of the jaws resulting from wear is readily taken up also from time to time by tightening the nuts on the two bolts.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a pruning-shears or similar cutting irnplenient, the combination, with the cuttingjaws united by a pivot-bolt; of the plate D having a hole for the pivot-bolt on which it is placed beneath the nut of said bolt, and 95 having a curved slot concentric with such IAO bolt-hole and located to one side thereof, and a bolt which is inserted through said curved slot ot' the plate and through the Shanks of the tWo blades or jaws beneath, the underlnost jawhavng a slot of Corresponding eurvature to that in the said plate for the bolt E to slide in and the blade next to the said plate having a hole for said bolt, and nuts on 

